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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: September 17, 2015
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Press Release
Post date: August 30, 2015
A fortnight before three journalists are to receive an award for their work for press freedom two of them have been jailed.
Imprisoned are al-Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed. Their outraged colleague, Australian Peter Greste, is home after being deported but was also given a... Read more
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Press Release
Post date: August 24, 2015
Liberty Victoria has welcomed the Victorian government’s decision to remove Special Religious Instruction (‘SRI’) from scheduled class time at government schools. The government has announced instead that SRI will only be available before or after school or at lunchtime.
The government’s move comes... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: August 20, 2015
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Press Release
Post date: August 20, 2015
Liberty Victoria today warned against moves to wind back access to the courts for environmental groups.
The attack on access follows a successful challenge by a Queensland conservation group in the Federal Court that stopped Adani's Carmichael coal mine in central Queensland.
Liberty believes... Read more
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Press Release
Post date: August 3, 2015
The decision by an Egyptian court to once again adjourn the re-trial of television’s “three brothers”, journalists Peter Greste, Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy, came as they were awarded Australia’s top free speech honour. The next hearing is scheduled for 29 August 2015.
Members of the human... Read more
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Press Release
Post date: July 24, 2015
Civil liberties groups today warned that moves by the federal government to strip citizenship would not make Australians safer.
“To expel a person who has engaged in terrorism related offences and prevent them from re-entering Australia only places Australians and Australian interests in other... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: July 21, 2015
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Press Release
Post date: July 8, 2015
The Federal Government is urged to redouble its efforts to help an Australian journalist and his colleague facing charges of criminal defamation and computer crimes in Thailand.
“Just as in the case of Peter Greste in Egypt we have a case of a harsh crackdown on the media,” said the president of... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: July 2, 2015